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I'm new here and found this forum after running across a site trying to sell a $47 book on the Tesla Generator, AKA free electricity from thin air. I did a Google search and ended up getting the full book here for free!
I started pulling wires and bending conduit on side jobs with my father at age 7 or 8; I've ALWAYS been fascinated with electricity. Nothing excites me more than a good, strong lightning storm. I was a mediocre student in school and particularly in algebra. My mind rebelled at doing math with letters until our assistant principal took over our shop class, broke it up into sections instead of just letting us loose in the shop and I took basic electricity. E = I x R!!! Now I got it!! Took vocational electronics the next year and was accepted to Valparaiso Technical Institute after graduation. Parents were divorced so the college plan failed so I went with the Navy education and became an FTM. (Fire Control Technician, Missiles) I learned machine language computers, data converters and peripherals, and radar systems. (microwave propagation) After the Navy I worked as an entry level electronics bench tech but found better pay as an industrial electrician. Later I ended up in a steel mill as a motor inspector and learned about DC motor/generator circuits and controls and overhead crane circuits. Later on I took their upgrade courses to become a full multi-craft electrician encompassing industrial electronics and instrumentation, PLC programming, high power RF oscillators and up to 13.8 KV sub-station switch-gear. (Also welding and torch work)
In the mean time I learned (with a little help from another forum) to upgrade and build PCs and did TV repairs on the side for fun and just a little profit. I've repaired about every appliance over the years except microwave ovens.
I'm a family man with 3 kids and 6 grand children. In my spare time I fish, camp, hunt and enjoy spending my off time at our little river place 80 miles away from this city. I've got a motor home at THE River with a generator and converter/ battery charger that just has my mind spinning with ideas of solar panels and attempting to "live off of the grid". This forum has just amped up my plans and ideas ten-fold!! Thanks so much!!!
I started pulling wires and bending conduit on side jobs with my father at age 7 or 8; I've ALWAYS been fascinated with electricity. Nothing excites me more than a good, strong lightning storm. I was a mediocre student in school and particularly in algebra. My mind rebelled at doing math with letters until our assistant principal took over our shop class, broke it up into sections instead of just letting us loose in the shop and I took basic electricity. E = I x R!!! Now I got it!! Took vocational electronics the next year and was accepted to Valparaiso Technical Institute after graduation. Parents were divorced so the college plan failed so I went with the Navy education and became an FTM. (Fire Control Technician, Missiles) I learned machine language computers, data converters and peripherals, and radar systems. (microwave propagation) After the Navy I worked as an entry level electronics bench tech but found better pay as an industrial electrician. Later I ended up in a steel mill as a motor inspector and learned about DC motor/generator circuits and controls and overhead crane circuits. Later on I took their upgrade courses to become a full multi-craft electrician encompassing industrial electronics and instrumentation, PLC programming, high power RF oscillators and up to 13.8 KV sub-station switch-gear. (Also welding and torch work)
In the mean time I learned (with a little help from another forum) to upgrade and build PCs and did TV repairs on the side for fun and just a little profit. I've repaired about every appliance over the years except microwave ovens.
I'm a family man with 3 kids and 6 grand children. In my spare time I fish, camp, hunt and enjoy spending my off time at our little river place 80 miles away from this city. I've got a motor home at THE River with a generator and converter/ battery charger that just has my mind spinning with ideas of solar panels and attempting to "live off of the grid". This forum has just amped up my plans and ideas ten-fold!! Thanks so much!!!
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